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" Vaughan: Pack is Pulling for Parrish Courtesy: NC State Release: 09/05/2006 Send this article to a friend Print Greg Parrish cheers on the Pack at the RBC Center. View larger Courtesy: NC State Greg Parrish cheers on the Pack at the RBC Center. By Annabelle Vaughan It’s football season. Hard hits dominate the SportsCenter highlights. Mammoth players flex their muscles for the cameras and then go out and deliver jaw-jarring tackles. Coaches all over the country talk about toughness and how their teams need to develop more of that elusive trait. But let me tell you about toughness. Toughness is telling your doctor before he performs brain surgery that he needs to make sure he’s fast, because you have a Wolfpack basketball game to go to. Toughness is going through round after round of chemotherapy without flinching, but being devastated when your beloved team loses a close game. Toughness is always bearing a bright smile, even though your gums are bleeding because of all of the medications that are being pumped through your body. Toughness is learning to make it through the world without being able to see where you’re going. To be able to yell at the referee, “I could have made that call, Ref, and I’m blind!” Toughness is Gregory Parrish. Gregory has been a member of the Wolfpack family now for several years, a steady fixture behind the Wolfpack bench, in the lockerroom, on the bus. Throughout everything he’s been through, ‘the guys’ have been his inspiration, and he has definitely been an inspiration to them. When the call goes out that Greg is struggling, the response shows just what he means to those who have come in contact with him. Julius Hodge calls from Denver. Ilian Evtimov checks in from Italy. Tony Bethel in Maryland, Cam Bennerman in Chicago, the entire coaching staff at Arizona State and every player, manager and trainer from the current Wolfpack team. He has had that much of an impact on so many people. That call went out last night. Greg is in ICU at Duke, clinging to his life. His parents, Gary and Charlene, are at his side, just as grateful and graceful as they have been throughout his ordeal. And although Greg isn’t conscious, he’s still showing that toughness, fighting off an infection that threatens him. So next time you hear someone talk about toughness, remember little Greg ... and say a prayer for him and his family."

9/9/2006 9:52:16 AM

mootduff says this has already been posted, therefore old

9/9/2006 9:56:58 AM

shut up

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9/9/2006 11:48:33 AM

just said he passed away last night...

9/9/2006 12:59:24 PM

HES DEAD NOW

9/9/2006 12:59:28 PM

I thought the announcers said he passed early this morning. Truly a sad day in Wolfpack land. We lose a great little Wolfpacker, and we lose a game.

9/9/2006 4:34:26 PM

RIP Greg Parrish. Thoughts and prayers go out to your family and friends.

9/9/2006 4:35:09 PM